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<Philip J. Boland> works on statistical and probabilistic aspects of reliability and the history of statistics. UCD's 2005–06 institutional record lists research interests in <reliability theory>, <life testing>, actuarial <probability> and mathematical statistics. These are historical affiliations and interests in that record, rather than a claim about his present appointment.https://www.ucd.ie/students/t4media/2005-6%20science_pg.pdf[Printed p. 90, Philip J Boland staff entry]{ref}

<reliability theory> connects distributions of component lifetimes to the behavior of a whole system. Statistical inference then estimates those lifetime distributions or compares designs from observed failures and surviving units. Boland also wrote the Dictionary of Irish Biography entry on <William Sealy Gosset>, connecting the mathematical development of small-sample inference with its industrial setting.https://www.dib.ie/biography/gosset-william-sealy-student-a3543[Author byline, Philip J. Boland]{ref}

Institutional biographical record: https://www.ucd.ie/students/t4media/2005-6%20science_pg.pdf


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